As it turns out, some Jurassic sea monsters may have had their own preferred place to puke. Roughly 160 million years ago, long-necked marine reptiles called plesiosaurs may have also swum towards ...

Swallowing a battery is usually a medical emergency. But what if you could swallow one that powers a medical device inside your body and then safely dissolves when its job is done? Researchers have ...

The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction.

TEMPOS isn’t a perfect solution. The stars it observed are nearby analogues, not surviving stars from the dawn of the ...

Aerial view of part of the ancient school complex at Mieza, where Alexander the Great is believed to have studied. Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture. In 343 BCE, King Philip II ...

Humanity could be killed by a superintelligent AI making and releasing some dangerous new bioweapon into the atmosphere. This is, in fact, one outcome of the AI 2027 scenario by the AI Futures Project ...

Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and author of the ...

The South African MeerKAT radio telescope, situated 90 km outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, is a precursor ...

Credit: Bill Coulson, Risso’s Dolphin Project South West volunteer, courtesy of the Marine Biological Association. At first ...

But what if stimulating a leg bone could actually help the brain recover? In a surprising new study, researchers found that ...

For nearly eight years, North Korea has not announced another nuclear test at Mount Mantap. But the ground beneath the ...

Then its hind limbs snap — and the tiny machine launches itself across the ground. The 11-centimeter-long robot stores energy ...